I decided to make a rosette on the soprano. I plan to add black binding, but couldn’t get the black veneer strip to work so the rosette will be of untainted maple.
First action is routing the channel with the massive rosette cutter from Micheal Connor in Australia. Pricey but an absolute joy to use.
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Then I prepared the maple strip by winding it around the bending iron. |
I was very lucky, or automagically skilled, the width of the channel was exactly the width of four turns of the veneer strip. I thinned out the ends and jammed it in.
Then I added CA glue. A trick I find helpful is using the thin viscosity variety first, then switching to medium thickness glue. The thin glue will help drawing the thicker in, that’s beneficial because I wouldn’t trust only the thin stuff.
I let it dry for an hour or so then planed it down with my Little Victor plane, known from this blog in 2009 or thereabouts.
And it is done, at least as far as it needs to be right now. Next up is cutting the soundhole and then we’re off to the braces!
